The Diplomat
The Spanish and British Armies have carried out joint maneuvers at the Renedo-Cabezón Shooting Range, in the province of Valladolid, to improve their interoperability in the face of the challenges generated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The British Embassy released a video yesterday to show the “most important annual maneuvers”, by the hand of the ambassador, Hugh Elliott, and the Defense attaché of the Embassy itself, Stephen McGlory.
“We’re here at Castile Fields, but at a very special field. It is the Renedo-Cabezón training camp to witness the most important exercise of joint maneuvers of the British and Spanish Armies this year,” said Hugh Elliott during his visit to the maneuvers.
In the video, McGlory explains to the ambassador that “the exercise is called Iberian Sun and is held every year.” “It’s an exercise between a Spanish regiment from the Galicia Brigade and a company from the number two rifle regiment” and has allowed “training alongside an ally” to “practice maneuvers and to practice tactics, and it’s all worked very well,” he continued.
“We are in a situation where there is war in Europe,” the defense attaché explained. “Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine puts us in another context” and, therefore, in “a very real context in international life (…), the armed forces of all all allied countries have to be willing and ready to deter and, if necessary, defend Alliance territories and operate alongside another force, another army of the same level, with the same capabilities and have that interoperability,” he added.
